British electro-pop star Victoria Hesketh (you know her as Little Boots) stopped by Cosmo this week to talk about her stellar new album, Nocturnes—due May 7—which will have you dancing up a storm (and maybe wearing more glitter than usual). To say this album is insanely infectious is an understatement: Check out her ethereal, trance-like first single Motorway and latest release, the perfectly crafted disco-dance jam Broken Record.

Little Boots talked with us about making a record on her own terms, the return of disco, and why she wants to be like Robyn (don't we all).

Cosmo: Is it May yet? We can't wait to hear this album live!

Little Boots: It comes out two days after my birthday! I'll be in the U.S. on tour that week, so I'll just make it my birthday/tour/album week. Celebrate everything in one week! We'll be doing six cities in seven days—and hitting both coasts—so it's going to be killer. It would be cool to do something for all ages as well—I always get loads of messages from fans under 18 who all say they really want to come to a show, but there's the under-21 laws here! And I think God, that was the main age I went to gigs, when I was 18 and 19. So we'll see what we can do. I'm just so psyched to get out on tour with the new songs. I know I'm going to live on adrenaline the whole week. You don't even need to feed me! I'll just be high on adrenaline all week!

Cosmo: Your music lives really well between the dance and the indie worlds—was there a particular sound you were going for when recording this album?

Little Boots: I've always had one foot in pop and one foot in the kind of alternative dance world. I really wanted to make sure this album was sonically cohesive. I wanted to record it all in the same room with the people, the same synthesizers. I've been out DJ-ing since the last tour—just being in dark, dirty places at three in the morning—and listening to a lot of old disco and house and reading up on the history of dance music. You can definitely hear those influences here and how it led me to work with Tim Goldsworthy from DFA Records and Andy Butler from Hercules and Love Affair.

Cosmo: We thought we heard a disco-revival in the works on here.

Little Boots: It feels like maybe this year could be the year of disco—Daft Punk is coming back and working with Nile Rodgers and Giorgio Moroder, the two kings of disco. Dance Pop is just huge and feels so derivative and unimaginative to me, and I know that space could be amazing and creative and pushing boundaries. I'm hoping that with Daft Punk coming back and working with the people they are, they will give dance a bit of a kick in the ass—save it from eating itself any further. There are some amazing pop songs out there, but for every great one there are five terrible ones. It's a vicious cycle.

Cosmo: You co-write all of your songs, and you've set up your own label, On Repeat, to release this album. How was that process?

Little Boots: It took a bit of balls, really. I wasn't seeing eye to eye with my other label and it was so frustrating, so the past three years have been this journey of setting up my own label and making this record that I really wanted to make. It's been self-empowering—now I'm totally in control of my career and where it's going. Even though it's a lot more work on a personal level, it's super exciting. It means I can be like, "I have an idea for a video! Let's make it!" or "I want to work with this producer! Let's do it!" or "I want to make a dress that lights up for my tour! Let's do it!" It feels like I'm in the driver's seat. It took some time to learn to trust myself and get that self-confidence, but I look at people like Robyn who really took control, and she's such an incredible, inspiring woman and artist. She set up this badass label and made all these amazing records, and I thought shit, if she can do it so can I! I'm hoping I can follow in her footsteps. So, thanks, Robyn!